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PERSONALITIES PLUS

Not merely a rhetorical question, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HOLLYWOOD? by Jesse L. Lasky Jr. recaps with unabashed gusto and marked candor the successive metamorphoses of the film capital. Son of the pioneer film-tycoon, Lasky paints a fascinating though disenchanted picture of the Hollywood he knew so well. (Funk &Wagnalls $8.95)

Seminal writings by Lev Kuleshov, an early Soviet director and scholar, appear in the polemical and representative KULESHOV ON FILM. Theoretical and practical aspects of filmmaking are considered, particularly his pioneering of the "montage" theory that influenced Eisenstein and Pudovkin, and the visual synthesis concept known …